LONrCERA CHINEN'SIS. 
CHINESE HONEYSUCKLE. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Introduced 
China. 
30 feet. 
June, July. 
Shrub. 
in 1806. 
No. 916. 
Lonicera, for its derivation see No. 894. This 
favourite shrub, like many others, has had much 
occasion for offence, from being so perpetually nick- 
named. Besides the name for it which we have 
adopted after Decandolle, it has, by various authors, 
been called, Lonicera flexuosa, Lonicera Japonica, 
Lonicera glabrata. Then the changes have been 
rung upon these specific names in connexion with 
the generic name Caprifolium; and in Sweet’s 
Hortus Britannicus, second edition, it is mentioned 
under Kaempfer’s outlandish name of. Nintooa Ja- 
ponica. We notice these discrepancies that our 
readers may not be puzzled by meeting either the 
plant, or any account of it, under an appellation 
differing from that to which we have here given 
the preference. 
Of all the Honeysuckles with which we are 
acquainted, this is the most beautiful for training 
against a southern wall. We do not even except 
our own wild species, the Lonicera periclymenum. 
Its foliage has a neatness, and variety of tint, not 
usual in others ; its gay flowers are produced in 
abundance, and their fragrance, although not of 
